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Butter Tart Squares Recipe

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Delightfully rich and sweet butter tarts are a home baked favorite during the holiday season. Tarts are yummy but they can also be quite a bit of work to prepare. Well you can get around all that extra work by making my mom's special recipe for butter nut squares.

It is a delicious oooey gooey sweet dessert treat so easy to make. In this recipe the ingredients that go into making traditional butter tarts are instead put into a square baking pan so you don't have to form and fill shells. It is a delightfully quick and easy recipe that is ideal to serve up as a festive dessert treat.

It had forgotten about this treat for quite a few years but recently discovered it tucked inside a box of hand written recipes she had gifted me. It simplifies the butter tart baking process by at least half. You get all the flavor of the traditional tart but whipping up a batch of these squares is a breeze.

It is a wonderfully quick and easy recipe but no one will ever guess how simple it is to prepare unless you let them in on the secret. These bar cookies look and taste too good to be this easy but that is a deliciously sweet secret that you don't have to share unless you want to.

All the ingredients that go into making butter tarts are put into a square baking pan so you don't have to take the time to form and fill tart shells. It is an ideal dessert to present at a social tea or to serve to the family as an everyday after school treat.Bottom Crust Ingredients:

You can use pancake syrup, pure maple syrup, or corn syrup in this recipe. I used Aunt Jemima butter flavored syrup simply because it was the brand I had on hand.

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Cut together your crust ingredients till the dough has a crumbly texture. Either a pastry cutter or a fork will work. As the butter is worked in I will crumble the dough lightly between my hands.

3. Divide your dough between two 8x8 buttered baking pans. Press dough into the bottom of the pans to form a thick crust.

4. In a second bowl combine the ingredients for the butter tart filling. Blend with mixer. This will chop the butter into smaller pieces. The ingredients for your filling should be thoroughly blended but you will still likely have tiny dabs of butter throughout the mix.This is okay. The butter will melt during the baking process.

5.Divide this mixture over the two crusts you have previously prepared. Spread the mixture to evenly cover both the bottom crusts.

6. Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes. Allow to cool thoroughly before cutting and serving.

The bottom crust tastes deliciously like a shortbread cookie while the topping is buttery sweet and nutty. The squares look and taste luxuriously extravagant.

These bars are also the perfect holiday delicacy. At Christmas time when life can be busy any recipe that can simplify holiday baking is a bonus. I love this recipe.

Butter tarts are ooey gooey sweet goodness that are so very delicious served up with your other home baked treats for the holidays. They are definitely one of my favorite desserts at any time of the year. Ooey gooey sweet temptation.

People Who do Their Own Baking are Superheroes

When you skip the snack aisle at the grocery store and do your own baking you really do have superpowers. You have the ability to create healthier snacks, treats, and desserts for your family. You have the ability to control the ingredients in your recipes so you can adapt and alter to make these foods healthier for your family.

You can reduce the salt and sugar that go into the recipes you cook. That one step alone can have a tremendous impact on a person's health. You can substitute bad fats for good ones and replace unhealthy ingredients with much healthier options. Way to go!

You really do know how to bake up a little love in every bite of food you that you serve up to your family and friends.You are a superhero and your super powers may help to keep those that you love a little bit healthier.

Simple Substitutions for a Healthier You

1. To make your dessert recipes just a smidge healthier add fruit or nuts into your recipe. Most recipes can be easily adapted to replace, reduce, or eliminate ingredients of your choosing.

2. Reduce the sugar you use in the recipe or substitute with honey.

3. Reduce transfats and saturated fats by substituting with other ingredients or using healthier fats and oils in your cooking and baking. Substitute banana or apple sauce for oil.

4. Use 1% milk rather than evaporated or whole milk.

5. Avoid transfats. Those fats are hard on the heart. Read the ingredients on ever product before you purchase it.

6. Cook with oatmeal whenever possible. Oatmeal is soluble fiber and classed as a heart healthy food. Fruit crisps and oatmeal cookies are delicious and have a healthier twist to their consumption.

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